Vise



0. S. LEE

VISE

Filed Feb. 4, 1924 azzkgifif a,

Patented Nov. 25, 192 4.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTAR S. LEE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO NYE TOOL & MACHINE WORKS,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A. CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

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Application filed February 4, 1924. Serial No. 690,470.

2 '0 a] Z whom it may concern Be it known that I, OTTAR S. LEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at 108 N. Jefferson. St, Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vises, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates more particularly to that type of vise which is provided for application to an upright, as for example a post, and is secured releasably thereto by means of an element which engages the body of the vise, as for example at hooks thereon, and extends about the upright to secure the vise in the desired position thereon; and my object, generally stated, is to provide a construction of vise whereby danger of the breaking, or otherwise impairing, of the portion of the vise to which the securing element is connected, will be minimized.

Referring to the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a vise embodying my improvement, showing it secured in position on a post. Figure 2 is a section taken at the line 2 on Fig. 1 and viewed in the direction of the arrow; and Figure 3, a section taken at the line 8 on Fig. 2 and viewed in the direction of the arrow.

The vise shown, as to its general features of construction, is the same as those commonly provided, the device comprising a body member 4 presenting a plate-portion 5 which flatwise opposes a face of the upright, such as that shown at 6 in Fig. 1, to which the vise is to be secured. The body member 1 is provided along one edge with a flange 7 forming, with the plate-portion 5, an angle into which the adjacent corner-of the upright (5 extends as shown, the opposite end of the plate-portion 5 and which contains a recess 8 for receiving the securing element hereinafter described, extending beyond the opposite corner of the upright 6. The body member also comprises an arm 9 which extends outwardly from the plate portion 5 and, in accordance with common practice, carries the stationery jaws 10, and the movable aws 11 together with their operating means, including the screw 12.

The body member 4 is provided with portions for connection therewith of the ends of an element hereinbefore referred to and which secures this member to the post 6, the element being shown in the form of achain 13, with a tauting device, represented at 14,

such as that shown in U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,204,734, and the portions referred to being in the form of hook-shaped lugs 15 and 16, both of which are formed integrally with the plate-portion 5, as for example by casting this plate-portion and lugs, in one piece. The lug 16 at the edge of the plateportion 5, adjacent the flange 7, is located in the angle formed by the plate-portion 5 and the arm 9 and the metal forming this lug is integral with this plate-portion and arm, this lug, where it projects beyond the edge of the plate member, extending part way across the latter, in overlapped position relative thereto, as represented at 17.

The lugs thus formed are sufficiently resistant to the stresses to which they are subjected in use, to maintain them in unimpaired condition.

It will be noted that by forming the metal of the lug 16 integral with the plate-portion 5 and arm 9, even where the space between the arm and the marginal edge of the plate-portion 5 adjacent the flange 7, is narrow, as shown, the lug 16 is caused to be highly resistant to stresses imposed upon it in use, its resistance being augmented by the pro vision of the portion 17.

lVhile I have illustrated and described my invention as embodied in a particular form of structure, I do not. wish to be understood as intending to limit it thereto as the same may be modified and altered without departing from the spirit of the invention.

hat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A vise for attachment to a post comprising a metal body member having a plate-like portion at which said body member bears flatwise against the post and an arm integrally formed therewith and extending outwardly therefrom at an angle to said plate-like portion between the lateral edges of the latter, and a lug on said body member having aportion for attachment thereto of an element for securing said body member to the post, said lug being located in the corner presented by said plate-portion and said arm and being formed integrally at one portion with the metal of said plate and at another portion integrally with the metal of said arm.

2. A vise for attachment to a post com prising a metal body member having a plate-like portion at which said body member bears tlatwise against the post and an arm integrally fOlHlQCl therewith and eX- tending outwardly therefrom at an angle to said plate-like portion between the lateral edges of the latter, and a lug on said body member having a portion for attachment thereto of an element for securing said body member to the post, said lug being located in the corner presented by said plate-pop tion and said arm and being formed integrally at one portion with the metal of said plate and at another portion integrally with the metal of said arm and said lug extending outwardly from said plate-portion generally in the same direction that said arm extends and substantially horizontally.

3. A vise for attachment to a post comprising a metal body member having a plate-like portion at which said body member bears flatwise against the post and. an

arm integrally formed therewith and extending outwardly therefrom at-an angle to said plate-like portion between the lateral edges of the latter, and a lug on said body member having a portion for attachment thereto of an element for securing said body member to the post, said lug being located in the corner presented by said plate-portion and said arm and being formed integrally at one portion with the metal of said plate and at another portion integrally with the metal ofsaid arm andsaid lug extending outwardly from said plate-portion generally 7 iii the same direction that said arm extends beyond-said plate portion, said lug having-a projection overlapping the end surface of said plate-portion and ntegral therewith.

OTTAR S. LEE.

and substantially horizontally and late-rally 

